Windows 10 UWP programming utilities and tips

In the following I put some programming utilities and tips I used: it was a private post but I decided to makes it public so, may be, it could be useful to someone else (even though it is not a well structured post 😦 … sorry for that!)

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Two hidden gems in the Universal Windows Platform (from Minerva’s blog):

No more need of a BooleanToVisibilityConverter class: if we use the {x:Bind} markup extension (that was first introduced in the initial release of Windows 10), we can cast a Boolean property to a Visibility value directly in the XAML definition:

<Image Source="Assets/Favorite.png"        Visibility="{<strong>x:Bind (Visibility)</strong>ViewModel.IsFavorited}" />

Set the ItemsUpdatingScrollMode property of the ItemsStackPanel to KeepLastItemInView, that adjusts the scroll offset to keep the last visible item showing at the bottom of the view:

<ListView ItemsSource="{x:Bind ViewModel.Samples}">
    ...
    <ListView.ItemsPanel>
        <ItemsPanelTemplate>
            <ItemsStackPanel <strong>ItemsUpdatingScrollMode="KeepLastItemInView"</strong> />
        </ItemsPanelTemplate>
    </ListView.ItemsPanel>
</ListView>

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